The Analysis of Jobs

• in projects that generally involve the design of jobs for an organisation.
• those involved in staff recruitment, training, employee appraisal and reward system management
• budding human resource specialists and team leader/managers.
• Business studies and others involved in a work placement or research activity into job structures and relationships.

• The Starting Point: Analysing your own job
• Job descriptions - burn 'em
• Role analysis
• Reward Systems and Job Evaluation Techniques
• Fayol - Functions of Management
• Rosemary Stewart: Choices and the Manager
• Managing by Objectives and Results
• The Nature of Managerial Work
• Checklists for Job Planning and Development
  • More Reflection on Job
  • Job Demands, Choices and Constraints
  • The Art of Delegation
  • More on MbO/R
  • Information Systems and Control

• The Pressure for Competence
• Management Ability as a National Vocational Standard
• Job analysis assignments (recruitment)
• Profiling the ideal candidate for a job - the starting points of Rodger and Munroe-Frazer - evaluate the usefulness of heir schema!
• Bringing together job prospectus information

• Job Description Examples - for seminar discussions.

  Evaluate these job descriptions to identify the characteristics of the jobs in question and to appraise the value of a job description and how it is presented.

  1. Media Relations Executive - use this job description to evlaute the types of job demands, choices and constrasints that the post holder is likely to face. Appraise the kind of "competences" that the post holder will need to demonstrate in performing the job.
  2. Sales Representative
  3. Loft Emporium - Branch Manager
  4. Hotel Food and Beverages Manager

• The Value of Job Analysis Techniques
• Job Analysis Toolbox - a selection of techniques
  Under construction!
• Job Element Inventory - Cornelius & Hakel, 1978
• Traditional Work Study Techniques

Some References